Errands and things
I bolted out of school at 5pm so I could get back to Akabane and take care of crap that depended on things like the post office and bank being open. I did manage to get it all done, fortunately.
I paid for the JLPT application in a postal ATM, then ran to a convenience store to photocopy the receipt and the application, then ran back to the post office to pay for it to be sent via tokutei kiroku... er, registered mail. Whew. And once that was all done I went to the postal ATM to get out some of the money I had been saving in there for rent/etc, and then went to Sumitomo to pay my rent.
They only let you do furikomi with cash there until 6pm, and I got there at 5:51, but it was in time. HOWEVER, they had added a new thing to it where it asks something like "Have you been approached by someone to give them money?" and some other conditions, and I realized that you had to touch the button to confirm that no, you hadn't, but I apparently got it backwards, and it spouted a bunch of random warnings at me how OMG WE CAN'T LET YOU GIVE MONEY IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. (They don't have English on the ATM for anything except deposits/withdrawals, and I do actually read Japanese well enough to get through most transactions on most machines, honestly.) So, back in, and I chose the other choice, and paid rent. Wonder if like, it alerts them to some security thing or not. I bet if it does, they'll look at the tape for 5:52pm and be like "Oh... a foreigner. Bet she couldn't READ it."
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combinator, who was arriving in Japan today (yes -- for some reason, out of nowhere, I have like four friends visiting Japan over this Golden Week, and of course, this is the first time I've ever left the country for Golden Week. Sheesh), and so I did a few more things like paying my phone/internet bill, and I also went to the bookstore to look for the manga Carl had requested -- turns out the actual place to look was Book-Off, and I found it. I was also hungry, so I ate some sushi for dinner at Heiroku, since I don't really get there that often anymore.
I decided to head home around 7. I was almost there when I got an email from Martin. Sigh. Problem is, me being tired and him and his girlfriend also being tired, and them being like 45 minutes from here out in Chiba, and all of us not being particularly hungry, and them not having a cellphone... I figured trying to meet up one way or another was likely to be a disaster.
So, I am home, which is a good or bad thing, I'm not sure. The good news is that my cold seems to be passing! The bad news is that packing is hard. Also that Hosei lost today, though at least the loss went to Mishima instead of Kagami... (though that's still sad. And Hosei got 4-hit with two of the hits being by those two pitchers.)
By the way, for those wondering, I signed up for the N2 level of the JLPT. I'm fairly sure I'll fail again, but I figured that if I'm taking a damn N2 class then I should take the damn N2 test.
I paid for the JLPT application in a postal ATM, then ran to a convenience store to photocopy the receipt and the application, then ran back to the post office to pay for it to be sent via tokutei kiroku... er, registered mail. Whew. And once that was all done I went to the postal ATM to get out some of the money I had been saving in there for rent/etc, and then went to Sumitomo to pay my rent.
They only let you do furikomi with cash there until 6pm, and I got there at 5:51, but it was in time. HOWEVER, they had added a new thing to it where it asks something like "Have you been approached by someone to give them money?" and some other conditions, and I realized that you had to touch the button to confirm that no, you hadn't, but I apparently got it backwards, and it spouted a bunch of random warnings at me how OMG WE CAN'T LET YOU GIVE MONEY IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING. (They don't have English on the ATM for anything except deposits/withdrawals, and I do actually read Japanese well enough to get through most transactions on most machines, honestly.) So, back in, and I chose the other choice, and paid rent. Wonder if like, it alerts them to some security thing or not. I bet if it does, they'll look at the tape for 5:52pm and be like "Oh... a foreigner. Bet she couldn't READ it."
I was vaguely waiting to be contacted by
combinator, who was arriving in Japan today (yes -- for some reason, out of nowhere, I have like four friends visiting Japan over this Golden Week, and of course, this is the first time I've ever left the country for Golden Week. Sheesh), and so I did a few more things like paying my phone/internet bill, and I also went to the bookstore to look for the manga Carl had requested -- turns out the actual place to look was Book-Off, and I found it. I was also hungry, so I ate some sushi for dinner at Heiroku, since I don't really get there that often anymore.I decided to head home around 7. I was almost there when I got an email from Martin. Sigh. Problem is, me being tired and him and his girlfriend also being tired, and them being like 45 minutes from here out in Chiba, and all of us not being particularly hungry, and them not having a cellphone... I figured trying to meet up one way or another was likely to be a disaster.
So, I am home, which is a good or bad thing, I'm not sure. The good news is that my cold seems to be passing! The bad news is that packing is hard. Also that Hosei lost today, though at least the loss went to Mishima instead of Kagami... (though that's still sad. And Hosei got 4-hit with two of the hits being by those two pitchers.)
By the way, for those wondering, I signed up for the N2 level of the JLPT. I'm fairly sure I'll fail again, but I figured that if I'm taking a damn N2 class then I should take the damn N2 test.
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And I saw something on TV last year about a thing some college student made that can tell when someone is talking on their phone (can't remember how), and a bank put it on top of their ATM so that when people came in with their phones out it would play a recorded message telling them to get off the phone. (You know, because the only way people can get you to transfer money to them is if you're on the phone with them when you go to the ATM...?)